Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	admit_v	doctrine_n	great_a	52	3	2.1295	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46640	Verus Patroclus, or, The weapons of Quakerism, the weakness of Quakerism being a discourse, wherein the choicest arguments for their chief tenets are enervat, and their best defences annihilat : several abominations, not heretofore so directly discovered, unmasked : with a digression explicative of the doctrine anent the necessity of the spirits operation, and an appendix, vindicating, Rom. 9. from the depravations of an Arminian / by William Jamison.	Jameson, William, fl. 1689-1720.	1689 (1689)	Wing J445; ESTC R2476	154,054	299

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all_o bless_a for_o ever_o so_o with_o equal_a impiety_n they_o bring_v down_o the_o glorious_a god_n level_v he_o with_o the_o dust_n and_o subject_a that_o most_o pure_a and_o impassable_a be_v to_o the_o weak_a frailty_n of_o mankind_n allege_v that_o christ_n weep_v as_o god_n and_o not_o as_o man_n over_o jerusalem_n but_o that_o they_o may_v want_v all_o ground_n of_o complaint_n let_v we_o hear_v themselves_o who_o in_o the_o principle_n of_o the_o priest_n of_o scotland_n pag_n 33._o say_v it_o be_v ask_v of_o he_o viz._n henry_n foreside_n of_o a_o fore_n ordain_v number_n to_o destruction_n and_o for_o what_o christ_n weep_v over_o jerusalem_n he_o answer_v as_o he_o be_v human_a he_o mourn_v and_o his_o godhead_n decree_v they_o to_o hell_n this_o be_v a_o lie_a doctrine_n of_o the_o devil_n for_o after_o many_o of_o they_o of_o jerusalem_n come_v to_o be_v convert_v as_o you_o may_v read_v in_o act_n 2._o and_o many_o of_o the_o priest_n come_v to_o be_v obedient_a to_o 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